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Armstrong Family Foundation

The ARMSTRONG FAMILY FOUNDATION contributes to children's health youth education and the betterment of its local communities.

C$425k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k16 grants · C$29k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$71k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$325k
C$2,500
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St. George's School FoundationC$125,000
Nature Trust British ColumbiaC$100,000
Branksome HallC$100,000
Savary Island Land Trust SocietyC$25,500
Jewish Federation Greater VancouverC$20,000
BC Cancer FoundationC$15,500
Jasper Community Team SocietyC$10,000
BC Women's Health FoundationC$5,000
Royal Insland Hospital FoundationC$5,000
BC Children's Hospital FoundationC$4,500
Charitable Impact- Strachan Hartley Legacy FoundC$2,500
People For a Healthy Community on Gabriola SocietyC$2,500
Canuck Place Children's HospiceC$2,500
FRASER INSTITUTEC$1,500
Covenant House VancouverC$1,500
02Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.2M · 31 repeat orgsC$167k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
31

Total granted

C$3.2M
C$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+36%

Still filing today

100%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.”

Backed again, and grew

  • NT
    Nature Trust British Columbia
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$1.2M · revenue +374%
  • SG
    ST. GEORGE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$900k · revenue +6%
  • BH
    Branksome Hall
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$200k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • QU
    Queen's Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$25k · revenue +27%
  • HH
    Health & Home Care Foundation of BC
    one grant, 2023 · C$20k · revenue -21%
  • FF
    Forum for Women Entrepreneursgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$15k · revenue +280%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Pacific Public Health Foundation

The pacific public health foundation works in collaboration with the bc centre for disease control (bccdc) and more broadly the health sector to support public health in bc by funding and facilitating evidence-based work that has an…

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2
Lung Foundation of British Columbia

The lung foundation of bc provides funding to support research and studies of prevention and control of lung and related diseases.

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3
The Victoria Foundation

The victoria foundation connects people who care with causes that matter. established in 1936 the victoria foundation is canada's second oldest community foundation and the sixth largest of nearly 200 nation-wide. the victoria foundation…

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4
Vancouver Foundation

Vancouver Foundation leverages the generosity of donors towards projects initiatives and organizations working to create meaningful and lasting impact on our communities. We continued delivering a number of grant programs and initiatives…

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5
Victoria Hospitals Foundation

The victoria hospitals foundation raises funds for priority medical equipment special projects research education and other island health priority needs primarily at royal jubilee hospital victoria general hospital and gorge road hospital.…

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6
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research

Annual peer-reviewed funding award/grant competitions projects and activities that foster talen development in bc; support provincial health system priorities health system transformation and innovation; build capacity for research uptake;…

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7
Bc Emergency Health Services Foundation

Bc emergency health services foundation (the 'foundation') is a charitable organization that raises and stewards funds for research education promotion of public health and other activities supporting british columbia emergency health…

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8
B.C. Mental Health Foundation

The british columbia mental health foundation is dedicated to raising awareness and support for mental health and substance use care education and research throughout the province. the bc mental health foundation provide funds to support…

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9
Comox Valley Healthcare Foundation

Comox valley healthcare foundation (cvhf) raises funds through a variety of methods to support the general advancement of healthcare and healthcare related services in the comox valley. cvhf provides funding for medical and diagnotic…

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10
Streetohome Foundation

Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…

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11
Canucks for Kids Fund

Canucks for Kids Fund dedicates resources and time to qualified charities benefiting children youth and families by focusing on health and wellness social development education and awareness and grassroots hockey. Funding: Core…

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12
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health and Home Care Foundation of Bc and the most unlike its peers is Branksome Hall. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

02the grantee network

66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own CRA returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 70 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/66
Grantees still filing
47/66
Grew since you first funded

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNature Trust British Columbia — C$1,151,490 over 6y, 12% of budgetST. GEORGE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$900,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetBranksome Hall — C$200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBC Children's Hoopital Foundation — C$126,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA Metro Vancouver — C$120,619 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSavary Island Land Trust — C$90,500 over 5y, 48% of budgetChrist Church Cathedral — C$83,850 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBC Cancer Foundation — C$69,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBC WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — C$55,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCanadian Constitution Foundation — C$55,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTrans Canada Trail Foundation — C$50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetD.H.I.L.D.Foundation — C$50,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetOcean Wise Conservation Association — C$50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Federation of Greater Vancouver — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Club Foundation — C$39,798 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$39,185 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetQueen's University — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHealth & Home Care Foundation of BC — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$17,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Red Cross — C$17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetForum for Women Entrepreneurs — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOrder of St. John Palliative Care — C$13,756 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFraser Institute — C$12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVancouver Police Foundation — C$11,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Sir Winston Churchill Society of Calgary — C$10,100 over 1y, 29% of budgetBig Sisters of BC Lower Mainland — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJasper Community Team Society — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDalhousie University — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSimon Fraser University — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAMLOOPS FOOD BANK — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRoyal Insland Hospital Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetScience World Vancouver — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer Society of BC — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSick Kids Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBC New Hope Recovery Society — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Bloom Group — C$3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCanuck Place Children's Hospice — C$3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrue Patriot Love Foundation — C$2,505 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRegistered Nurse Foundation of BC — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPeople For a Healthy Community on Gabriola Society — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDR. PETER AIDS FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharitable Impact- Strachan Hartley Legacy Found — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRITTER CARE WILDLIFE SOCIETY — C$2,292 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANADA HELPS — C$2,060 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVariety the Children's Charity — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTetra Society of North America — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOVERIEGN ORDER OF ST. JOHN — C$2,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetKENNETH GORDON MAPLEWOOD SCHOOL — C$1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Zlc FoundationNicola Wealth Private…United Way British Co…The Joseph Segal Fami…Vancity Community Fou…Peter & Joanne Brown …Canada GivesVancouver FoundationThe McLean McCuaig Fo…Lohn FoundationBeedie FoundationTelus Employees Chari…
Zlc FoundationBC18.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Zlc Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · United Way British Columbia · The Joseph Segal Family Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Peter & Joanne Brown Foundation · Canada Gives · Vancouver Foundation · The McLean McCuaig Foundation · Lohn Foundation · Beedie Foundation · Telus Employees Charitable Trust

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data — your own annual information return and the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year) — each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010; we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without a BN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your T3010 annual information return for the fiscal period ending 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 888595105:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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